This is an anti-quackery and pro-neurodiversity blog. Most posts here have to do with the author's view that autism is not a new man-made phenomenon, but instead a natural part of our species that has always been with us, and should continue to be. Reasonable corrections and rebuttals are welcome and encouraged.

Friday, July 09, 2010

Comment Spam at Blogger Getting Out of Hand

This morning I got spammed in a way I've never been spammed before. A spam-bot with the handle xiaoyu posted the same comment spam in what appears to be each and every one of my blog posts.

It's a shame that Blogger doesn't have a good way to deal with comment spam. Their captcha obviously isn't working very well. Unfortunately, I don't believe spam-filtering is a breeze in other platforms either.

6 comments:

For some reason I've been getting tides of spam for a certain brand's products.

I leave some old posts open because people still come by to comment.

I use typepad -- it's pretty good about catching spam comments. If I put the brand name into the spam filter it'd stop but unfortunately the brand name is also appropriate to use generally so I'm stuck there.

You really need to come back to your blog! Your posts are great! I found your blog the same day I found ageofautism.com, Thank God. If it wasn't for your blog and others like it, I probably would have succumbed to the lies from ageofautism.com..... so Please start posting again!

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I am the parent of a classically autistic boy, and I'm on the spectrum myself. The science of autism is my main area of interest, but I have a general interest in science and data analysis. My formal training is in Computer Science.

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